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<h2 style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#222222">2020 OREGON HERITAGE EXCELLENCE AWARDS OPEN FOR NOMINATIONS<o:p></o:p></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Nominations for the 2020 Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards Program are now being accepted. Applications can be found online through the Oregon Heritage website
<a href="http://www.oregonheritage.org">www.oregonheritage.org</a> or by contacting Oregon Heritage Coordinator Beth Dehn at
<a href="mailto:Beth.Dehn@oregon.gov">Beth.Dehn@oregon.gov</a> or (503) 986-0696. The postmark deadline for submitting nominations is January 26, 2020.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The Oregon Heritage Excellence Awards recognize individuals, businesses, and organizations for outstanding efforts on behalf of Oregon heritage, drawing public attention to these efforts,
and raising the quality of heritage-oriented activities. The Sally Donovan Award for Historic Cemetery Preservation is a special category that may be awarded to one individual, organization, or project demonstration excellence in preservation of historic cemeteries. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Nominations are encouraged for organizations and projects of all sizes and heritage purposes and for volunteers and professionals from all heritage sectors.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">“The award recipients represent the extraordinary efforts to preserve Oregon’s heritage,” said Beth Dehn, coordinator for the Oregon Heritage Commission. “They also serve as models for others
on how to develop new ideas, approaches, and innovations.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Last year’s recipients included:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--<b> Building a Better Community: The Canby Women’s Heritage Trail</b>, the first heritage trail in the state to focus on accomplishments of women, with a multi-layered approach to community
engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">-- Cultural Resources Department of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">, for 30 years of dedicated work as a department to
preserve and celebrate the Tribe’s cultural history, recently culminating in the
<i>Rise of the Collectors </i>exhibit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">-- David Dittman,</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> for reporting an archaeological find on private land going above and beyond expectations to engage the public
with the find. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--<b> Ann & Owen Nicholson</b>, for their critical role in providing Nehalem Valley Historical Society with a museum and archive.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--<b> Kylie Pine,</b> for going above and beyond her professional capacity as curator at Willamette Heritage Center to impact the community through teaching, volunteer work, board service,
and publications related to local history. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">-- Richard & Judith Wagner</span></b><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">, for extraordinary research, writing, and community engagement related to Coos Bay area history.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">--<b> Salem Depot</b>, an excellent preservation project spearheaded by the Oregon Department of Transportation that overcame challenges, worked across agencies, and merged multiple modes
of transportation to rehabilitate an historic building.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Awards will be presented on April 23, 2020 at the Oregon Heritage Conference in Corvallis by Oregon Heritage, part of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The announcement for 2020 awardees will be made in mid-March 2020. Tickets for the awards presentation will be made available this coming spring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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